Adams Family History

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ADAMS FAMILY HISTORY

At that time, I think we had a lot more snow, and we played out over the hills. We’d walk home from school, and we had a lot of snow to wade through and down through the Hollow every Spring. At least there would be quite a flood through the big old ditch. Often times, we could make it across the little planks Dad had built, but at times it would come rushing down and over that, and we’d have to cling to the wire fence, or Dad would back the wagon into the water and help us across. If he could, sometimes he would ride the horse across and take us back. In the wintertime, sometimes we’d have ice, and I think everybody but me learned to skate.

Mother said they sometimes had flash floods in the summertime, but the most water usually in the spring when the snow would go off. I don’t think they begin to have snow now like they did in those days.

Jack and I finally drove to school in an old Ford car. We were going to high school, I guess, and we’d come home after the snow had gone off. There were several muddy places, and we practically carried the car through while we steered with one hand on the outside. Jack took neighbor children to school too. That was after I was married, and I guess he was married at that time. He took all the Moore’s Hollow children that were going to high school and took them clear to Ontario. That was before they had the school bus lined up. All my younger brothers and sisters, there were four of them, were born in Moore’s Hollow. Ann, Betty, Jim, and Pauline. Pauline lives in La Grande now. Jim is in Olympia, Washington. Don has recently moved up from California and is going to live in Fruitland. I’m living in Fruitland, and Jack is in Weiser.

My folks moved to Weiser from Dead Ox Flat. I was going to say Betty is in Caldwell. They moved into Weiser, and for a while, Dan had kind of a nursing home. She kept mostly ambulatory patients, elderly women. Mrs. Frank operated one of them. She stayed with her quite a while in Weiser. Then, Ann and Dan bought a trailer park in Payette, and they have been living there since. I hope to take them out to our place in Fruitland shortly, where they will live. Mother is 82 and will be 83 in December. Dad was awfully busy on the farm and had the boys. Moved from the dryland down to the irrigated and for a while, all of the land up to the Meridian place. I guess that was Meridian. He had all that farming to do. His sons helped him while they were at home. They had to learn to irrigate when they got the irrigated ranch. They had cattle as well on the dryland. That was very interesting to look back and think about the old horse-drawn combines and about the times before that when they’d have a threshing crew come in. All the men that it took to run that. The neighbors helped too, especially during the depression. Neighbors had to help each other because manpower was scarce and so was money to pay help.

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From Marguerite Adams Pope